The last question/comment had me dazed for a moment... That is the whole point of the fan, to help with the heat transfer from the heatsink to the gasesous substance we call "air." Granted, without the fan there is a certian amount of thermal tranfer between the sink and the air which may be enough when the processor is running "cool."
My problem is that I tend to think of fans the same way as I think of hard drives. If you spin it up and down often enough there is more wear than if you just left it at a single constant speed the entire time. Granted I'm not a mechanical engineer so this is just my opinion, nothing more. > ps: what would the problem be with not running the fan when the chip > is running cool? Its not going to make it colder like a peltier will, > it'll just dissipate the heat that is produced... ? > > -- It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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